Choosing How We Live
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Choosing How We Live
You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning
...You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
--Joan Baez
How thrilling to contemplate that we can choose every attitude we have and every action we take. We have been gifted with full responsibility for our development. What will we try today? It's our personal choice. How will we decide on a particular issue? Our options are only limited by our vision.
Every situation in life offers us a significant opportunity for making a decision that will, of necessity, influence the remaining situations we encounter. Just as we are interdependent, needing and influencing one another in all instances that bring us together, likewise our decisions are never inviolate. Each is singly important; however, its impact is multiplied by the variety of other decisions triggered.
The choice is ours for livings fully today, for taking advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves. Our personal growths, our emotional and spiritual development, are in our hands. God will provide us with the guidance, and the program offers us the tools. The decision to act is ours, alone.
I will exercise my personal power. My choices determine my development.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey © 1982, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation.
...You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
--Joan Baez
How thrilling to contemplate that we can choose every attitude we have and every action we take. We have been gifted with full responsibility for our development. What will we try today? It's our personal choice. How will we decide on a particular issue? Our options are only limited by our vision.
Every situation in life offers us a significant opportunity for making a decision that will, of necessity, influence the remaining situations we encounter. Just as we are interdependent, needing and influencing one another in all instances that bring us together, likewise our decisions are never inviolate. Each is singly important; however, its impact is multiplied by the variety of other decisions triggered.
The choice is ours for livings fully today, for taking advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves. Our personal growths, our emotional and spiritual development, are in our hands. God will provide us with the guidance, and the program offers us the tools. The decision to act is ours, alone.
I will exercise my personal power. My choices determine my development.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey © 1982, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation.
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It was so incredible when I could see through the fog and realize that I could do anything I wanted to within reason. Like go to another city to finish college....I did enjoy thinking about it and the idea that I could do it if I wanted to but chose to stay where I had a job that fit with going to school at night.
I finally was a known entity and accounted for something in my life. Years of raising kids is a lot different than what we were taught in our young years. I was glad when mine were raised and making it on their own.
Now it is my turn to say No if I don't want to do something. I can let the laundry & or the floors wait another day. I can go on trips out of state or in state. I do need to consider my husband and he...me but life is good for us the way it is now.
I finally was a known entity and accounted for something in my life. Years of raising kids is a lot different than what we were taught in our young years. I was glad when mine were raised and making it on their own.
Now it is my turn to say No if I don't want to do something. I can let the laundry & or the floors wait another day. I can go on trips out of state or in state. I do need to consider my husband and he...me but life is good for us the way it is now.
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Originally Posted by Gettinup 
Ann, you are such an inspiration to all of us! Thank you for being the generous provider of wisdom and patience: is it really, Saint Ann?
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